UTM
UTM is a full featured system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS. It is based off of QEMU. In short, it allows you to run Windows, Linux, and more on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Virtualization
- Multi System Emulator
- Emulation
- Ad-free
- Container Virtualization
- Apple Silicon support
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Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about UTM
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Recent activities
POX added UTM as alternative to Flint KVM Management- kelsonv reviewed UTM
A solid wrapper around macOS's built-in QEMU (and Apple Virtualization). Fewer bells and whistles than the commercial options. You have to install guest tools for host integration yourself, but it uses SPICE and VirtFS, so most Linux guests can just use their own package manager.
Emulating different hardware just works. It's a lot slower than matching the real hardware, of course, but I've had no trouble setting up and running x86_64 Linux guests on an M3.
- thinks Privacy focused is a important feature of UTM
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Specs: CPU: M1 Max Screen Size: 16" Storage: 2TB RAM: 32GB
What is UTM?
UTM is a full featured system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS. It is based off of QEMU. In short, it allows you to run Windows, Linux, and more on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Features
- Full system emulation (MMU, devices, etc) using QEMU
- 30+ processors supported including x86_64, ARM64, and RISC-V
- VGA graphics mode using SPICE and QXL
- Text terminal mode
- USB devices
- JIT based acceleration using QEMU TCG
- Frontend designed from scratch for macOS 11 and iOS 11+ using the latest and greatest APIs
- Create, manage, run VMs directly from your device
Additional macOS Features
- Hardware accelerated virtualization using Hypervisor.framework and QEMU
- Boot macOS guests with Virtualization.framework on macOS 12+
Version for macOS is available at https://mac.getutm.app/ Apple Silicon is natively supported.
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A solid wrapper around macOS's built-in QEMU (and Apple Virtualization). Fewer bells and whistles than the commercial options. You have to install guest tools for host integration yourself, but it uses SPICE and VirtFS, so most Linux guests can just use their own package manager.
Emulating different hardware just works. It's a lot slower than matching the real hardware, of course, but I've had no trouble setting up and running x86_64 Linux guests on an M3.
Running Fedora and Ubuntu 22.04 smooth as butter on an M1 Macbook, free and open source.
The Idea of running KVM/QEMU on iOS is beautiful. Dont know the use case for me, but I see someone running a couple of iPad Pros like "blades" in a rack somewhere, haha.